[SPOILER discussion] Foreshadowing of Future?

[Vexander]

I once thought SE might do something like this with an expansion.


Start it off either fighting Garlemald or at some kind of Peace Treaty only for the Garleans to capture the Warrior of Light and for everyone else to presume they're actually dead. The Warrior of Light (us) would then go through the expansion with any existence in older content either being ignored or NPCs saying things like, "You sort of look like the Warrior of Light, but he/she's gone," with places like the Rising Stones being vacated or inaccessible for reasons.

It'd be something of a solo adventure to bring Garlemald down from within by finding reasonable Garleans who don't want war and conquest and would rather have the Republic back. At the end the rest of the world realizes we're alive, and we learn our death caused some... unpleasant side effects back in Eorzea that we'll need to contend with over the 5.X patches. Stuff like pirates undermining the Admiral's authority without the WoL backing her, or the Sultana being ousted in a coup, or the Elementals sealing off the Twelveswood, or even Ishgard withdrawing from the Alliance out of anger over what they would perceive as the Alliance's abandoning the Warrior of Light to death.

Probably too much to think of even being considered, but it would be interesting. Not that I care for the idea of things falling apart without us, but at the same time, our disappearance and reappearance becoming the impetus to burn out the last vestiges of corruption and intrigue within the Eorzean Alliance's nations does also hold it's own value.